Does the Left Have a Future? Does the Left Have a Future?
With the Soviet model shattered forever, it is the social democratic one that is now in deep crisis in Western Europe. On the face of it, judging just by the results of June's Eu...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Death of a Legendary Hero Death of a Legendary Hero
The riots of 1968 are bound to change the way that history views the political career of Charles de Gaulle.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Supping With the French Devil Supping With the French Devil
Cartoonists can beat journalists at their own game of first oversimplifying and then exaggerating.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Sound and the Furet The Sound and the Furet
History may not have come to a stop in 1989, but the public is still under the spell of the counterpoint in Francis Fukuyama's famous exercise in propaganda: Capitalism is eterna...
Jan 1, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Allen Weinstein’s Docudrama Allen Weinstein’s Docudrama
Let's start with the Random House press release, replete with "Praise for Perjury"--a reissue of Allen Weinstein's book on the Hiss-Chambers case.
Oct 16, 1997 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
Heart of Whiteness Heart of Whiteness
Milton Friedman, Gary Bauer, William F. Buckley. Could we ask more of a cruise?
Oct 6, 1997 / Eric Alterman
The Adolescent Lockup The Adolescent Lockup
Not so long ago politicians campaigned by kissing babies. Today, they lock children in jail.
Jun 19, 1997 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro
The Marching Saint The Marching Saint
Staughton Lynd, although he would never admit it, is one of the visible saints of the modern American left.
May 22, 1997 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle